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Welcome back to the Deep-Sea Podcast, your punk take on all things deep sea! Join Alan in the Industrial Badlands of the Canary Islands as he cuts holes in ships, while Thom rubs elbows with New Zealand’s political elite.
In the news, get ready for updates on:
A meeting in Perth to discuss the Red List status of Deep-sea organisms. Deep-sea desalination techniquesCapturing Octopus movements for robot creationCommon Starfish with a juicy booty and one country’s massive love for divestreamingHow deep-diving beaked whales might be our closest helpful relativesOn the Discord, we’ve been busy with:
A new patron, welcome Hugoshibo!Custom-milled keels for a bespoke handmade USV.Critter photos from a ghost diving trip.Debated the necessity of jars in legitimising a science career.Baby Dumbo paper and adorable baby photos shared by Kat. Deep Sea Lino cut prints happening on canvas.Ceramic hagfish sculptures and blown glass mermaids purses complete with kelp. NotOurDog made an appearance, and much talk about Oreo cafes and CAKE!Guest Interview
Tyler Greenfield is a paleontologist and cryptozoologist whose blog, Incertae Sedis reveals the truth behind some cryptozoological stories and paleontological mistakes. Since his appearance on episode 10, Tyler has finished his bachelor’s, written a good few papers, appeared on other podcasts (none as good as his debut of course) and is almost done with his masters and is about to start his PhD. He was even a credited consultant on the new (2025) Walking with Dinosaurs.
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News
Te Papa Biodiversity Centre Press Release
Deep-Sea Desalination Pulls Fresh Water from the Depths | Scientific American
Deep-sea octopus footage could revolutionize flexible robot design - Earth.com
Humans descend into huge deep-sea canyon for first time ever. What they find is astounding | Discover Wildlife
Flourishing chemosynthetic life at the greatest depths of hadal trenches | Nature
The deepest-diving whales could inspire new treatments for stroke and cancer | National Geographic
Neurodegenerative Diseases: What Can Be Learned from Toothed Whales? - PMC
The original article for our unfortunate ‘squid’ image
“Colossal Squid Filmed Alive for the First Time”: Juvenile Deep-Sea Monster Captured on Camera in South Atlantic Stuns Scientists - Sustainability Times
How A Golden Nurse Shark Made History
Interview
Tyler’s master’s/doctorate research
https://usercontent.one/wp/pecescriollos.de/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/PI-04-Greenfield-2022-List-of-skeletal-material-from-megatooth-sharks.pdfhttps://usercontent.one/wp/pecescriollos.de/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/PI-06-Shimada-Greenfield-2022-Responses-to-Skeletal-material-from-megatooth-sharks.pdfTyler’s work on Onchopristis and other sawskates
https://incertaesedisblog.wordpress.com/2020/05/18/onchopristis-is-a-sawskate-not-a-sawfish/https://incertaesedisblog.wordpress.com/2022/01/12/updates-on-sawskates/https://incertaesedisblog.wordpress.com/2022/04/12/fact-checking-planet-dinosaurs-onchopristis/https://incertaesedisblog.wordpress.com/2022/11/25/the-earliest-discovery-of-a-sawskate/https://www.mapress.com/bn/article/view/bionomina.22.1.3 https://www.researchgate.net/publication/356911837_Sawskates_Rajiformes_Sclerorhynchoidei_and_the_concept_of_pristification https://www.researchgate.net/publication/357752727_Sawskates_Rajiformes_Sclerorhynchoidei_and_the_concept_of_pristification https://mapress.com/mz/article/view/mesozoic.1.2.3 https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S1464343X25000081 Some of Tyler’s work on megalodon in cryptozoology
https://www.journalofscientificexploration.org/index.php/jse/article/view/3041https://zenodo.org/records/7903372https://zenodo.org/records/13285787https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_2CZMfyHQAM&t=528shttps://www.researchgate.net/publication/385383987_The_history_of_Otodus_megalodon_in_cryptozoologyFurther Reading
Onchopristis paper by Eduardo Villalobos-Segura et al
The BBC posted a clip of Spinosaurus hunting Onchopristis from "Walking with Dinosaurs" on YouTube, which anyone should be able to watch. The entire episode should be available for free on the BBC website for anyone in the UK and on the PBS website for anyone in the USA.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BBPlZNfemmMhttps://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/m002csns/walking-with-dinosaurs-series-1-2-the-river-dragonhttps://www.pbs.org/video/the-river-dragon-siyrjh/https://sharonahill.com/fake-california-coelacanth/
Three-fingered alien mummies
Paleontologist Rodolfo Salas-Gismondi’s skeptical analysis of the mummies.
Former paleontologist Clifford Miles’ website and ‘paper.’
https://web.archive.org/web/20231216230358/https://www.themilespaper.com/https://web.archive.org/web/20231223232419/https://www.themilespaper.com/_files/ugd/5a322e_bf4471a1eba54eae9290f61265f6e25c.pdfYouTuber History with Kayleigh made a skeptical video about Miles’ work, which would be more savory to link.
Nazca Mummies Are A New ALIEN Species?!
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